On 4/5/06, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, it would get rid of an expensive and bulky piece of field > recording equipment: the snake. Instead of a passive connector box on the > stage, connected to the recording engineer's station by hundreds of feet of > large, heavy, and expensive custom multichannel shielded cable, there would > be a little Cat 6 Ethernet cable running from the engineer's console to an > active A/D conversion unit on stage. Even better, a media converter box to > change between UTP and free-space optical communication would get rid of the > whole hassle of laying a cable the length of the auditorium and having the > audience walk on it or trip over it. I envision a box with some 1/4" jacks > for direct mike input, and some digital input jacks for digitized stage > mikes. Input boxes should be chainable through the Ethernet interface, so > that channel expansion is just a matter of plugging more audio input boxes > into the hub. > This piece of gear could outlive many generations of computer > technology. It wouldn't need drivers as such; just a set of standards for > the protocols to be used over Ethernet. This makes it a lot easier to > support as a cross-platform peripheral. Since multichannel audio recording > is fundamentally time-division multiplex, TCP/IP doesn't really belong in > the system. ATM over Ethernet might be a better fit. Running multiple > digitizer boxes over a single subnet would be basically a problem in time > slot assignment.
>From my understanding Deutsche Grammophon has been doing something like this for about 12 years now and I wouldn't be surprised if all the major labels have caught up especially since Univeral bought up most of the recording landscape. As for that non-classical, non-art music stuff, who cares. It's all digital from the begining and compressed up against 0 db anyway. (-: Justin _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
